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Bright pink background with yellow starbursts; green text 'ling' and 'bling' arranged in vertical , some text slightly shifted in different frames

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Bright pink background with yellow starbursts; green text 'ling' and 'bling' arranged in vertical , some text slightly shifted in different frames

Bright pink background with yellow starbursts; green text 'ling' and 'bling' arranged in vertical , some text slightly shifted in different frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text shifts
  • starbursts vary

Animation Summary

  • Text shifts left and right in bottom-right ; starbursts vary in position across frames

Composition

  • vertical
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered yellow starbursts. Four vertical columns of green text: top-left column reads 'ling', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'; bottom-left column reads 'ting', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'; top-right column reads 'ling', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'; bottom-right column reads 'ling', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'. In bottom-right column, the 'ling' text shifts slightly left and the 'bling' text shifts slightly right between frames. Yellow starbursts vary in position across frames.

Description

Bright pink background with yellow starbursts; green text 'ling' and 'bling' arranged in vertical , some text slightly shifted in different frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background yellow starbursts green text
  • ling bling ting text shifts
  • vertical starbursts vary
  • text-based animated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Bright pink background with yellow starbursts; green text 'ling' and 'bling' arranged in vertical columns, some text slightly shifted in different frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text shifts left and right in bottom-right column; starbursts vary in position across frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical columns starbursts vary

Visible Text

  • ling
  • bling
  • ting

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow starbursts
  • green text
  • ling
  • bling
  • ting
  • vertical
  • text shifts
  • starbursts vary

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070807223210619400027
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1020 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a5d1d594d1211ba7a8c35d7a29866ead2d81d28ec964c6889955da5a9da33561.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
a5d1d594d1211ba7
SHA-256
a5d1d594d1211ba7a8c35d7a29866ead2d81d28ec964c6889955da5a9da33561
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 11:18 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000528

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Bright pink background with yellow starbursts; green text 'ling' and 'bling' arranged in vertical , some text slightly shifted in different frames

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,979 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 662

Review tags

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  • text shifts (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • text shifts
  • starbursts vary

Animation

  • text shifts
  • starbursts vary

Animation Summary

  • Text shifts left and right in bottom-right ; starbursts vary in position across frames

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • vertical
  • scattered starbursts

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered yellow starbursts. Four vertical columns of green text: top-left column reads 'ling', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'; bottom-left column reads 'ting', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'; top-right column reads 'ling', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'; bottom-right column reads 'ling', 'ling', 'bling', 'bling'. In bottom-right column, the 'ling' text shifts slightly left and the 'bling' text shifts slightly right between frames. Yellow starbursts vary in position across frames.

Description

Bright pink background with yellow starbursts; green text 'ling' and 'bling' arranged in vertical , some text slightly shifted in different frames

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background yellow starbursts green text
  • ling bling ting text shifts
  • vertical starbursts vary
  • text-based animated icon

Objects

  • starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: Text shifts left and right in bottom-right column; starbursts vary in position across frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical columns starbursts vary

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • animated

Visible Text

  • ling
  • bling
  • ting

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • yellow starbursts
  • green text
  • ling
  • bling
  • ting
  • vertical
  • text shifts
  • starbursts vary
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:48 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20070807223210619400027
Archive entry
20070807223210619400027.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070807223210619400027.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070807223210619400027.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016